Not fixing this bug would be a very bad move, because it can lead to having
partitions not aligned to a 4K boundary, meaning that your system would be
slow.

If any tools don't round partition starts to 4K by default they should be
fixed.

I can't speak to the wheezy installer, but at least the squeeze installer's
partitioner doesn't appear to do so; I got bit by that a couple of weeks back,
and had quite a bit of aggravation getting the partitions laid out and
filesystems created by hand.
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The Wanderer
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